Posts by: Dan Campbell

Spec Poetry News: The Moment of Change

Posted on 2011-10-04 at 20:06 by Dan Campbell

Rose Lemberg has announced the Table of Contents for The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, and it will include three poems and three poets who appeared (or soon will appear) in Bull Spec!


Athena Andreadis' poem "Spacetime Geodesics" was in the most recent Bull Spec, issue 6, while "Night Patrol" is forthcoming in issue 7.

Sofia Samatar's "The Year of Disasters" will appear in issue 8.

Lisa Bradley's poems in The Moment of Change, "The Haunted Girl" and "In Defiance Of Sleek-Armed

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Posted in athena andreadis, bull spec #4, bull spec #5, bull spec #6, bull spec #7, bull spec #8, feminism, lisa bradley, news, poetry, sofia samatar

Bull Spec Poetry Reviewed!

Posted on 2011-08-26 at 16:20 by Dan Campbell

New speculative poetry review site Versification reviews the poetry in Bull Spec issues 1-6! I'm particularly happy that Versification's Erik Amundsen is the reviewer, as I've enjoyed his other reviews there. Overall, he provides a solid critique for our work with poetry over the last year and more, ending with: "Bull Spec seems to be developing quite well as a poetry publication. I know that poetry is not ever going to be its first priority, but its choices are showing signs of steady improvement, and I

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Posted in bull spec #1, bull spec #2, bull spec #3, bull spec #4, bull spec #5, bull spec #6, poetry, reviews-of-bull-spec

Dipping into Fantastique Unfettered #3...

Posted on 2011-07-31 at 14:14 by Dan Campbell


The Cabinet of Curiosities Literary Extravanganza was fabulous fun last night! Readings and giveaways and beer and signings and books and conversations and beer and very loud rain and Bull Spec and beer and... :-) Bull Spec issue 6 is out in print--go get it if you haven't got it coming by subscription!

Also coming out soon is the third issue of Fantastique Unfettered, of which I got a sneak peek at the poetry and an interview with Mike Allen, editor of speculative poetry 'zine Mythic Delirium. Fantast

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Posted in alex seidel, bruce boston, bull spec #5, fantastique unfettered, js watts, lisa bradley, mike allen, mythic delirium, poetry, robert stutts

Poetry Acceptances & An Apology

Posted on 2010-12-15 at 02:34 by Dan Campbell
Many thanks to all who answered my call for poetry back in October! I'm feeling well fed and still enjoying the incoming submissions.

Before I announce acceptances, though, I must apologize to the poets whose work appeared in issue 3: we forgot to include your bios and are terribly sorry! So, belatedly, here's the scoop on issue 3's poets:

Rob Elkind ("Magnetic Moment") is currently employed as an Information Security Specialist (white hat). He is a long time practitioner and instructor of the Fu Hok Tai
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Posted in Uncategorized

We Want Poetry!

Posted on 2010-10-16 at 22:52 by Dan Campbell

With issue 3 available for pre-order, our poetry editor is hungry for more poems. Please feed him! We want poetry that takes one outside the ordinary, grabs the reader in the guts, and offers up a feast. The best guide to our taste is to read past issues of Bull Spec: send us something that would go well with the other poems we've published, would complement the stories, would add a little spice or would distill the essence of the whole in a single drop.

We're particularly fond of verse that shows a story,

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Posted in announcements, bull spec #3, guidelines, poetry